History Fanfic / Neomorphs

* AdultsAreUseless: Averted since now most of the main characters are adults.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The One appears to be a human (and resembles an elf at times), and even uses a human name, albeit an archaric one: [[spoiler: Azmaveth]].

* AliensAreBastards: Though present in Animorphs, this is averted in Neomorphs. Many alien races are helpful.

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Between the Crayak and The One is a aversion for two reasons. 1.) The One could easily restore the universe if it was destroyed, so there is no real balance at all. The One is holding all the cards here. 2.) Neither faction qualifies as good according to any traditional morality.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: Averted. Tobias accepts the job of leader readily and really doesn't complain about it. Jake is the one doing the leader complaining.

* CompetenceZone: Averted. The Animorphs now range in age rather widely, and they have numerous allies, some of whom may be more competent than the Animorphs are.

* CreatorProvincialism: Averted.
** Vladimir Putin, leader of Russia, is a major player and heavily involved.
** Andalite politics and their military situation are issues of concern for the Animorphs.

* DumbBlonde: Averted. Rachel is anything but dumb.

** Averted in Guraff's case, as his host is a Voluntary Controller.

%%* HourOfPower: The 2-hour time limit
* HufflepuffHouse: Averted. Most of the minor conflicts mentioned in the original series have a deep impact in Neomorphs, leaving issues that the protagonists need to resolve.
%%* HughMann: Occasionally applied to Al and David, though mostly Ax.

* AchillesHeel: The two-hour time limit from the original series still applies, as does the 3 day rule for Yeerks.
* ActionGirl: Still Rachel. Melissa as well.

* AlienAmongUs: Ax and Al.

* AlienBlood

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: As per canon.

* AntiHero: Tobias.
* AntiVillain: Guraff

* ArchEnemy: Guraff and Tobias, Ax and the Visser, Jake and Mersa

* AscendedExtra: Quite a few. Naomi, Dan, Chapman, Melissa, Ronnie, Jacques, Rook, Alloran, Sergio, and of course Captain Nerefir.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Visser, Guraff, the Apostates, Tobias, Rook but not the case with Salheer and Kalroth.
* BadassCrew: Still the Animorphs. Also the Apostates.
* BadassLongcoat: Tobias gets one.

** Arguably Sergio, though he at least seems to be effective.
* TheBattlestar: The Blade ship and Dome ships qualify.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Still Rachel.
* TheBerserker: Rachel.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Turns out Ronnie and James are full of rage. Who knew?

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Hork-Bajir.
* BloodKnight: Rachel still. Ronnie falls into this as well, and Tobias slips into this from time to time.
* BondOneLiner: The Visser, Marco, The One, and the Drode all use them.

* BreakingSpeech: Tobias and the Visser both during their conversation in book 64.
* TheBridge: The Blade ship and The Reliquary.

* TheChessmaster: The Crayak, the Ellimist, and The One.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Santorelli, Cassie, Loren]]
* CharacterDevelopment
* CharacterFocus

* {{Cult}}: Still The Sharing, though their public face is now a support group for former Controllers.

* DeadpanSnarker: Marco, Tobias, and Rachel. Sometimes David and James as well.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Quite a few, especially with tropes pertaining to character morality.
* DeathFromAbove

* DeathSeeker: Melissa is strongly implied to have only joined the Animorphs so that she could die fighting the Yeerks.

* DerelictGraveyard: Still the Nartec city.

* TheDragAlong: Cassie, though she eventually got over it.

* DyingAsYourself
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EldritchAbomination: The Crayak, the Drode, and the Ellimist, as in the previous series. They are now joined by The One.
* EliteMooks: The Apostates.
* EnemyCivilWar: For several books, Mersa leads a renegade faction of Yeerks against the Visser, but ultimately loses.

* EnemyMine: The Animorphs work with Mersa to undermine the Visser, but when he becomes too much of a threat, they switch gears to help the Visser take him down.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Guraff

* FallenHero: [[spoiler: Ronnie comes dangerously close.]]

* FlashbackNightmare: Frequently mentioned.
* {{Foil}}: All of the characters have one or two characters who act as a foil for them.

* FrickinLaserBeams
* AFriendInNeed: Commonly used plot device, mostly to reintroduce minor characters from the original series.
** Guide in books 55 and 74
** Estrid in book 68
** (arguably) David in book 61
** Ax in book 64
** Mersa in book 65
** Jake and Santorelli in books 66, 67, and 68
** The Chee in book 69
** The entire plot of Megamorphs 5
** Erek in Megamorphs 6

* GoingNative: Al has a crush on Kristina.

* GreyAndGrayMorality

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kicked around in many cases when someone discovers too much about the Animorphs.

* HeelFaceTurn: David.

* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Santorelli, Jake (he gets better), and Cassie]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Santorelli, Jake, and Cassie]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Tobias and [[spoiler: Ronnie]] are in danger of falling into this more and more as time goes on.

* HourOfPower: The 2-hour time limit

* HughMann: Occasionally applied to Al and David, though mostly Ax.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zig-zagged.

* HumanityEnsues: Tobias, Al, and David.
* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Ax, Al, and Elfangor.
* HurtingHero: Everyone, though particularly Tobias, Ronnie, Jeanne, and Ax.

* {{Immortality}}: The Ellimist, the Crayak, the Drode, and The One are all Type I. Everyone who can morph (most of the cast) is Type III. To an extent, Elfangor is type VIII, as Tobias carries some of his memories and is influenced by them. Arguably, Guraff is Type Zero

* ItsPersonal: Ax and the Visser

** Still the Animorphs.

** Jeanne, for several years.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Carried over from the original books.

* LongRunningBookSeries

* MagicPants: Carried over from the original series.

* MamaBear: Naomi and Rachel.
* ManipulativeBastard: Cassie, David, Marco, Jeanne, Jake, Tobias, the Drode, and Salheer, to name the most prominent examples. Neomorphs is full of them.

* {{Mordor}}: The Yeerk pool.
* MundaneUtility: Doesn't come up as often as it used to, as the Animorphs are older and (allegedly) more responsible now. Still, there are always mundane uses for morphing.

* VillainTeamUp: The Yeerks and the Pythagi.

* WorthyOpponent: How Guraff feels about Tobias.

->'''Marco:''' ''It sounds to me like we’re talking about another Yeerk invasion here. Another war like the first one.''
->'''Jake:''' ''Sounds like it. Animorphs version two-point-oh. The rematch of the millennium. If you want out, say so now.''
-> - '''Neomorphs #1: The Prologue''' (a.k.a. Animorphs #55)

* BigBad: The Visser (though [[TheDragon Guraff]] gets plenty of time as TheHeavy too) with The One as the BiggerBad [[spoiler: [[BlueAndOrangeMorality (technically)]]]]

* BlackAndGrayMorality: For example, Tobias's {{Archenemy}} is, by conventional standards, more upstanding than he is.

* ContestWinnerCameo: Carl Yastrzemski sort of falls into this.

* PuppetKing: The Council of Thirteen, the canonical BiggerBad of the Yeerk Empire, is reduced by the Visser to planetary governors of the Yeerk homeworld, with the Emperor becoming an honorary title. They're not happy about this.

* AliensAreBastards: Though heavily present in Animorphs, this is averted in Neomorphs. Many alien races are helpful.

** David's last name is [[spoiler: Montresor]], which is the name of the killer in the Cask of Amontillado.

* BigBadassBirdOfPrey: Smoke 'em 'cuz you got 'em.

* {{Aliens Speaking English}}:
* AlmightyJanitor: Palyed with. Though he works as a security guard for a suspected mafia organization, Tobias - TheLeader of the Animorphs - holds the rank of War-Prince in the Andalite military.

* {{AntiHero}}: Tobias.
* {{AntiVillain}}: Guraff
* AnyoneCanDie: Oh yes. Some main characters have been killed, some with no warning at all. [[spoiler: Santorelli, Jake, and Cassie.]]
* {{Archenemy}}: Guraff and Tobias, Ax and the Visser, Jake and Mersa

** The Visser got a little better with this, but he's still the Visser and so he still solves most of his problems by decapitating offending subordinates or morphing into an enormous monster and eating his antagonists.

* BigBadEnsemble: The Visser, Guraff, and The One.

* BondOneLiner: The Visser, Marco, The One, the Drode.

* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler: The Animorphs reveal the whole truth to Vladimir Putin after he starts to figure things out for himself.]]

* CatchPhrase: Rachel still says "Let's do it," and in order to k

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler: Santorelli, Cassie, Loren]]

* ComesGreatResponsibility: The Animorphs are the only ones in a position to not only fight the Yeerks but also pass The One's test. Failure to do either would result in the enslavement of extinction of humanity itself.

** In the fight between Guraff and Ax and Ax gets pretty badly stomped by Guraff.
* {{Cult}}: Still The Sharing.

* {{DeathFromAbove}}
* DeathIsCheap: [[spoiler: Jake and Rachel both return from the dead, and Santorelli does as well, temporarily.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Mersa rebels against the Visser, trying to start his own empire.]]

* EldritchAbomination: The Crayak, the Drode, the Ellimist, as in the previous series. They are now joined by The One.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Visser and Guraff are close friends and seem to feel genuine emotional turmoil when one is in actual danger.

* EvilOverlord: Still the Visser.

* Flashback Nightmare: Frequently mentioned.
* Foil: All of the characters have one or two characters who act as a foil for them.
* Foreshadowing: Almost every Animorph mission goes horribly wrong somehow, and the narrating Animorph almost always comments on it beforehand.

* FourstarBadass:

* GreyandGrayMorality

* HeroicBlueScreenOfDeath: Marco, who [[spoiler: loses his memory in book 67 upon learning that Jake has been raised from the dead.]]
* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Santorelli, Jake, and Cassie]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [spoiler: Santorelli, Jake, and Cassie]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Tobias and [spoiler: Ronnie]] are in danger of falling into this more and more as time goes on.

* Hour of Power: The 2-hour time limit

* HulkSpeak: The Hork-bajir normally speak this way but Guraff's does not.
* HumansAreBastards

* Immortality: The Ellimist, the Crayak, the Drode, and The One are all Type I. Everyone who can morph (most of the cast) is Type III. To an extent, Elfangor is type VIII, as Tobias carries some of his memories and is influenced by them. Arguably, Guraff is Type Zero

* MadeofIron: Since morphing heals all injuries, it is pretty hard to kill anyone important in the series.
* MagicFromTechnology: Most alien technology is carefully unexplained, though it does follow MagicAisMagicA.

* TheEternalChurchill

* AliensAreBastards: Though heavily present in Animorphs, this is subverted in Neomorphs. Many alien races are actually helpful.

* EvilerThanThou: Originally, the Yeerk hierarchy is based off of this concept. The Yeerks later attempt to subvert it, with questionable results.

* HannibalLecture: Tobias and the Visser both during their conversation in book 64.

* HistoricalInJoke: Erek inspired both Dune and Star Wars.

* HulkSpeak: The Hork-bajir; subverted in Guraff's case.

* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted since now most of the main characters are adults.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: The One appears to be a human (and actually resembles an elf at times), and even uses a human name, albeit an archaric one: [[spoiler: Azmaveth]].

* {{Aliens Speaking English}}: Usually either justified or subverted.
* AlmightyJanitor: Subverted. Though he works as a security guard for a suspected mafia organization, Tobias - leader of the Animorphs - actually holds the rank of War-Prince in the Andalite military.
* AndIMustScream: If you're infested by a Yeerk, there's really no end to your suffering in sight. Can also refer to the Kelbrid, slaves to their bloodlust.
* {{Animorphism}}: The TropeNamer.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Subverted. Though he can arguably kick the ass of anyone in the galaxy, Guraff has resisted most attempts to promote him to any especially high rank.
* AuthorFilibuster: Many stories, especially early on, tend to end with one of these related at least loosely to some issue that arose during the novel.
** Occasionally subverted as the author has stated that he sometimes disagrees with his characters completely, even during these moments.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Visser, Guraff, the Apostates, Tobias, Rook.
** Subverted in the cases of Salheer and Kalroth.

* BadBoss: The Visser got a little better with this, but he's still the Visser. Arguably Sergio, though he at least seems to be effective.

* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Between the Crayak and The One. Subverted for two reasons. 1.) The One could easily restore the universe if it was destroyed, so there is no real balance at all. 2.) Neither faction qualifies as good according to any traditional morality.

* BigBad: The Visser, Guraff, and The One.

* BigBadassWolf: See above.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: Pretty much constant. Tobias's {{Archenemy}} is, by conventional standards, more upstanding than he is.

* TheBrute: The Visser still solves most of his problems by decapitating offending subordinates or morphing into an enormous monster and eating his antagonists.
* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler: The Animorphs reveal the whole truth to Vladimir Putin after he starts to figure things out for himself.]]

* ButterflyOfDoom: Subverted several times. The Animorphs travel to the past, only to learn that it was their own actions that caused things to turn out the way they did.

* TheChainsOfCommanding: This is interestingly subverted in Neomorphs. Tobias accepts the job of leader readily and really doesn't complain about it. It still applies to Jake, though.

* CompetenceZone: Subverted. The Animorphs now range in age rather widely, and they have numerous allies, someo f whom may be more competent than the Animorphs are.

* CreatorProvincialism: Subverted. Vladimir Putin, leader of Russia, is a major player and heavily involved. Also, Andalite politics and their military situation are issues of concern for the Animorphs.
* CurbStompBattle: At one point, Tobias and Guraff team up to fight off a bunch of Pythagi, who really don't stand a chance.
** In the fight between Guraff and Ax, Ax gets pretty badly stomped by Guraff.
*** Really, pretty much anything involving going one-on-one with Guraff.

* DumbBlonde: Subverted.
* DungeonMaster: The Ellimist, the Crayak, and The One.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Guraff is almost a walking example of this.

* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: Somewhat subverted. Most of the main characters already had a strong connection to the others, and many of the secondary characters are close friends or relatives of the main ones.

* FightingFromTheInside: Literal in the case of most Yeerk hosts. Subverted in Guraff's case, as his host is a Voluntary Controller.
** Also in the case of Salheer. "[Salheer's Host] was a really nice guy before he got Yeerked. He just can't stand up to the stuff Salheer's putting his brain through. He's basically just an empty shell of a man now. A vegetable. Except he's not good for you."

* Five-Bad Band: The Visser is the [[BigBad The Big Bad]] as well as TheBrute. Guraff is the definition of TheDragon, Salheer is [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]], and Kalroth is [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]].

* ForgotICouldFly: Sometimes, the Animorphs forget all of their morphs, leading them to choose inefficient bodies.
* FourstarBadass: Alloran. <I am no longer a Prince. I have retired. And I have not come to help you. I have come,> he said, <to kill Yeerks.>'

* GoodAllAlong: In addition to the examples from the original series, the Ssri'Kai (originally seen only as Controllers) actually served as protectors of the galaxy in the past.
** Though they did exterminate three sentient races who refused to say that their home planet of Ssri was the most beautiful in the galaxy.

* HeroicVow: Tobias vows to end the war before [[spoiler: the birth of his and Rachel's child.]]
** He ends up breaking this vow.

* HufflepuffHouse: Subverted. Most of the minor conflicts mentioned in the original series have a deep impact in Neomorphs, leaving issues that the protagonists need to resolve.

* Immortality: The Ellimist, the Crayak, the Drode, and The One are all Type I. Everyone who can morph (most of the cast) is Type III. To an extent, Elfangor is type VIII, as Tobias carries some of his memories and is influenced by them.
** Arguably, Guraff is Type Zero

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Santorelli, Cassie, Loren]]

* LaResistance: The Animorphs.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Jeanne, for several years.

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Most prominently displayed in the different leadership styles of Jake and Tobias. While Jake holds his people to a certain moral standard, Tobias will do almost anything if it gets the job done.
* LiteralSurveillanceBug: The Animorphs love to sneak around in bug morphs. Well, maybe not love it, but it happens a lot.

* MauveShirt: A lot of throwaway characters from the original series received promotions in Neomorphs. The best examples are [[spoiler: Jeanne, Ronnie Chambers, and Melissa Chapman]], who became main characters.
** And let's not forget Esplin 9466 Lesser, who went from being thrown away at the end of book 16 to reappearing as [[spoiler: the Emperor]] in Megamorphs 6 (which takes place after book 74).

* MetaGuy: Marco and David are practically employed by Jake and Tobias respectively to point out flaws in their plans.
* MillionToOneChance: Somewhat subverted in Neomorphs, as both sides are working under tight restrictions. The technological gap of the first series has been drastically reduced as well. Of course, the Yeerks still have legions of Kelbrid and hundreds of thousands of Yeerks...
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Morphing gives one the instincts of whatever the morphed creature is. David still acts like a rat (even obsessing over cheese early in the series), and Tobias has never lost his hawk tendencies.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tobias has made deals with the Crayak (the closest thing to Satan in this universe), made an alliance with a Yeerk leader who - while he did help them fight against the Visser - was infesting people in the Animorphs' home town, refused to warn several thousand Andalites that they are going to be ambushed by Yeerks (with the obvious result that they all died), made a string of poor command decisions that resulted in [[spoiler: Cassie]] being killed, and worked for what may or may not be the Russian mafia. While he appears not to be bothered by any of this, he does admit to Rachel that he regrets all of it.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Staying in a body for more than two hours means you stay forever.

* HotMom: [[spoiler: Rachel]]

* DidNotDoTheResearch: The author has never been on an alien capital ship and has, in fact, never met an extra terrestrial.

* HotAmazon: Rachel

{{Animorphs}} was a Sci-Fi book series that ran from 1996 to 2001, about five kids fighting off an alien race. Many fans were upset by the ending, and it has spawned massive amounts of fanfiction. Neomorphs, like many, was an attempt to continue the story from where the series ended. Unlike many, Neomorphs did not attempt to do so in a single story but, rather, continue the series with many new stories, similar in length, structure, and diction to the canon counterparts.

* ModeLock: Staying in a body for more than two hours means you stay forever.
* Mordor: The Yeerk pool.

* ItsPersonal: Ax and the Visser

At the end of the canon Animorphs series [[spoiler: Jake, Marco, Tobias, Jeanne, Santorelli, and Menderash go into space to rescue Ax from the Yeerks, only to find out that he has been possessed by a being called The One. The Animorphs learn that The One was the being that banished the Crayak from its own galaxy and agree to fight The One with Crayak on the condition that the Crayak and the Ellimist leave Earth alone in their game for the fate of the galaxy. They learn that The One is using a small group of Yeerks to invade Earth again. After they fail to head him off, The One, the Crayak, and the Ellimist agree to a deal: provided that the war for Earth remained a secret, none of these beings would use their powers directly. However, if the war became public, they would fight each other directly, which would destroy the universe.]] So, like in the canon series, a small group of Animorphs (Jake, Marco, Tobias, Cassie, Jeanne, and Santorelli) have to fight a secret war for the freedom of mankind.

* AnyoneCanDie: Oh yes. Some main characters have been killed, some with no warning at all. [[supersecretspoiler: Santorelli, Jake, and Cassie.]]

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Still Rachel. [[spoiler: Subverted a bit as she changes her appearance in book 6 (60)]] [[supersecretspoiler: and is pregnant later on.]]

* FallenHero: [[Ronnie comes dangerously close.]]

* Five-Bad Band: The Visser is the [[BigBad The Big Bad]] as well as TheBrute. Guraff is the definition of TheDragon, Salheer is [[EvilGenius The Evil Genius]], and Kalroth is [[DarkChick The Dark Chick]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Tobias: cunning, ruthless leader or insensitive bastard? Guraff 427: rampaging destroyer of worlds or honorable hero who just happens to be on the wrong side?

* AngstDissonance: David's trapped as a rat, James watched all of his friends die and fled to an alien world only to be pulled back to this one, Jeanne lost her memory. Tobias [[spoiler: found out that through a weird break in time, his close friend Santorelli was actually his step-father; which he learned just after he died]].

* TheBrute: Subverted in the case of Guraff. Though physically capable of crushing nearly anyone in combat, he is a very skilled tactician and military strategist.
* BrokenBase: The Animorphs split up into two distinct groups, fighting on two different fronts, which was very different from the norm.

* [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Anything done by Guraff.
* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Quite a few of these.

* EarWorm

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: All of the extra-dimensional beings go by pseudonyms. [[Spoiler: The Crayak and the Drode were once the same creature named Imaeus, the Ellimist's real name is Toomin, and The One is also known as Azmaveth, though whether The One has a real name is difficult to determine.]]